scholarly journals THE PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY OF IQBAL'S THOUGHT: The Mystical Experience and the Negation of The Self-Negating Quietism

Teosofia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Alim Roswantoro
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Mysticism ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

<span>The article tries to philosophically explore the Iqbal’s notion of mysticism and the mystic’s attitude in facing the world life. The exploration is focused on his concept of mystical experience and the negation of the self-negating quietism. And from this conception, this writing efforts to withdraw the implication to the passive-active attitude of the worldly life. It is the philosophical understanding of the Islamic mysticism in Iqbal’s philosophy as can be traced and found out in his works, particularly in his magnum opus, “The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam”. Mysticism, in Iqbal’s understanding, is the human inner world in capturing reality as a whole or non-serial time reality behind his encounter with the Ultimate Ego. For him, there are two experiences, that is, normal one and mystical one. In efforts to understand mysticism, one has to have deep understanding of the basic characters of human mystical experience that is very unique in nature compared to human normal one.</span>

Jewish Mysticism

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Elior
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Jewish Mysticism ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Mysticism is one of the central sources of inspiration of religious thought. It is an attempt to decode the mystery of divine existence by penetrating to the depths of consciousness through language, memory, myth, and symbolism. By offering an alternative perspective on the world that gives expression to yearnings for freedom and change, mysticism engenders new modes of authority and leadership; as such it plays a decisive role in moulding religious and social history. For all these reasons, the mystical corpus deserves study and discussion in the framework of cultural criticism and research. This book is a lyrical exposition of the Jewish mystical phenomenon. Its purpose is to present the meanings of the mystical works as they were perceived by their creators and readers. At the same time, it contextualizes them within the boundaries of the religion, culture, language, and spiritual and historical circumstances in which the destiny of the Jewish people has evolved. The book conveys the richness of the mystical experience in discovering the infinity of meaning embedded in the sacred text and explains the multivalent symbols. It illustrates the varieties of the mystical experience from antiquity to the twentieth century. The translations of texts communicate the mystical experiences vividly and make it easy for the reader to understand how the book uses them to explain the relationship between the revealed world and the hidden world and between the mystical world and the traditional religious world, with all the social and religious tensions this has caused.

scholarly journals Simbolisme Puisi Sufistik Odhy’s Simbolism Of Islamic Mysticism Poetry Of Odhy’s

ATAVISME ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Khairul Fuad
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Lower State ◽  
Islamic Mysticism ◽  
Sign Method

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui simbolisme pada puisi sufistik sastrawan Kalimantan Barat, Odhys, di dalam antologi berjudul Rahasia Sang Guru Sufi. Sufisme terkait dengan hubungan mistik dengan Tuhan maka simbol psikologi dipilih untuk menggambarkan keadaan dan situasi hubungan tersebut. Terkait juga dengan perjalanan atau pendakian dari alam rendah ke alam tinggi maka simbol kosmologi dan ontologi dipilih untuk menggambarkan rangkaian pendakian sampai ke puncak alam tinggi. Kedua simbol tersebut menjadi bahasan, sebagai terapan lain dari terapan selama ini yang tertuju kepada sebuah tanda. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskripsi dengan teori simbolisme untuk membangkitkan pengalaman hubungan mistik yang dilewati melalui pendakaian menuju Tuhan dalam puisi-puisi Odhys. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa langkah-langkah harus ditempuh untuk memperoleh pengalaman mistik dengan Tuhan, yaitu langkah penyucian jiwa (tazkiyah al-nafs) sampai langkah membuka hijab (mukasyafah). Kemudian, langkah-langkah tersebut melalui pendakian dari alam nasut, alam malakut, dan alam jabarut untuk sampai kepada Tuhan. Penelitian ini menjadi bagian dari sumbangsih perjalanan perkembangan sufistik di Kalimantan Barat melalui sastra dan menambah khazanah sastra sufistik melalui kajian.[Simbolism of Odhys Islamic Mysticism Poetry (Study of Poetry Antology Rahasia Sang Guru Sufi)] This research aims to identify the symbolism of West Borneo writers mystical Islamic poetries, Odhys, in his anthology Rahasia Sang Guru Sufi. Sufism relates to mystical relation with God, and thus symbol of psychology is selected to describe the state and situation of those relation. Beside that, it also relates to journey or ascension from lower state to higher state; therefore, symbols of cosmology and ontology are selected to describe ascension succession to the peak of higher state. Both symbols become the discussion of the research as another application among existing applications usually aimed to a sign. Method used is description with simbolism theory to revivify the experience of mystical relation through ascension to God in Odhyss poetries. From the analysis, it was found that the steps needed to achieve mystical experience with God include the self purification (tazkiyyat al-nafs) until the step of veil removal (mukasyafah). Then, those steps go through the ascension journey from nasut state, malakut state, and jabarut state to get to God. These research will become a contribution to the sufism development in West Borneo through literature and increase the sufism literature heritage through study.Keywords: sufism poetry; simbolism of psychology; symbol of cosmology-ontology; West Borneo

‘Dying to Live’: Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair

May Sinclair ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Raitt
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
May Sinclair

For Sinclair, the past was a wound. She feared being unable to escape it, and she feared in turn her own persistence in a form that she could not control. Mystic ecstasy – what she called the “new mysticism” – was a way of entering a timeless realm in which there was no longer any past to damage her. But she was also fascinated by what could never be left behind – hence her interest in heredity, the unconscious, and the supernatural. However, the immanence of the future can also emancipate us from the past, in Sinclair’s view, and this is the key to why mystical experience was so immensely appealing to her. Mystical experience could take the self out of the body and thus out of past traumas and into the future. False dying – like that which creates ghosts – traps the psyche in its own pain and forces it to re-experience the suffering of its life; real dying – mystical dying – involves forgetting the self and the world.

scholarly journals DIMENSI PENGALAMAN MISTIK (MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE) DAN CIRI-CIRINYA

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Mr Muzairi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Islamic Mysticism ◽  
The One

There seem to be two ways to discover the nature of religious experience. One way is to appropriate the historical formulation of one religion, denomination, or school of religious thought. Another way is to start from mystical experience or Sufism.Such is the case with Sufism, the generally accepted name for Islamic mysticism. To approach its partial meaning we have to ask ourselves first, what mysticism means. That mysticism contains something mysterious, not to be reached by ordinar y means or by intellectual effort, is understood from the root common to the words mystic and myster y, the Greek myein, “to close the eyes”. Mysticism has been called “the great spiritual current which goes through all religions”. In its widest sense it may be defined as the consciousness of the One Reality – be it called Wisdom, Light, Love or Nothing.

scholarly journals POETICS OF LIFELOGGING: ON INTERSUBJECT FORMS OF UTTERANCE IN IGOR KHOLIN’S POEMS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Aleksei S. Bokarev ◽  
◽  
Yulia V. Tkachuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literary Metaphor ◽  
Lyrical Subject

The article is addressed to the consideration of the subject organization of lyrics by I. Kholin, a representative of the Lianozovo literary group, who became widely known as the author of the book of poems “Residents of the Barack”. Already in the presented, debut for the poet, composition there were outlined the types of speech widely presented to him, in which the subject is likened to a life-log camera, and the focus of attention is shifted from “Self” to “you”, from internal to external to the speaking world. The term “life-logging”, meaning the automatic fixation of a person's life using a video medium fixed to the body, is used in the article as a literary metaphor, “highlighting” the difficulty of personal speaking and self-expression of the protagonist. However, just as the environment of a life logger who does not fall into his own lens gives him a sufficient (if not exhaustive) idea, the life realities in the subject's field of view can tell about his inner world no less than he by himself. The analysis of a number of poems (the most detailed is considered “Fences. Garbage cans. Posters. Advertising”) allows you to demonstrate the intersubjective nature of life-logic “optics”. The latter is used by Kholin in three different forms: as the “dissolution” of the speaker in the text, as the construction of the statement on behalf of the syncretic subject and as the priority of the “other” over the “self” when creating the verbal “self-portrait” of the hero. The impossibility of distancing from hostile reality, but also the inadequacy of selfdetermination in its conditions, testify to the formation of a kenotic model of the artist's relationship with reality. In Kholin's poetry, the lyrical subject is not only a detached viewer, but also a protagonist who fully shares his sins and suffering with the world.

scholarly journals Corak Epistemologi Mistis Neoplatonisme dalam Mistisisme Islam

Intizar ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Sahjad M Aksan
Keyword(s):  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
The People ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Mysticism

Mysticism is an inner struggle in search of light, clues and a way of chatting with the inner realm to reach knowledge through enlightenment. However, epistemically, mysticism is very personal, therefore it cannot be scientifically accountable. In the hands of Plotinus, mysticism seems to be living with its philosophical nuances, so that it is easily explained and adapted as one of the objects of philosophical study. Until now the legacy of the philosophy of Neoplatonism is still exists not only in the academy area, but also penetrated and became the understanding held by some Muslims who engaged in the world of Sufism both philosophical and moral. This indicates that there is freedom to have the people's horizons that can be adopted from anywhere while at the same time indicating the colors of Islamic thought. Understanding mysticism in Islam should indeed not be muzzled for any reason or to be confronted with Islamic understanding that is fiqh or fiqh oriented. Because, exploring Islamic mysticism which is recognized is influenced by the teachings of Neoplatonism, proves and teaches the people that there is a strong relationship between the conception of Shari'a and the conception of Sufism about worship so that they do not need to be contested because they have indicators that perfect the essence of tawhid and worship.

Power of Darkness: Narrative and Biographical Reflexivity in A Series of Unfortunate Events

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH BULLEN
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Earning ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
Children’S Exposure ◽  
Central Claim

This paper investigates the high-earning children's series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, in relation to the skills young people require to survive and thrive in what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Children's textual culture has been traditionally informed by assumptions about childhood happiness and the need to reassure young readers that the world is safe. The genre is consequently vexed by adult anxiety about children's exposure to certain kinds of knowledge. This paper discusses the implications of the representation of adversity in the Lemony Snicket series via its subversions of the conventions of children's fiction and metafictional strategies. Its central claim is that the self-consciousness or self-reflexivity of A Series of Unfortunate Events} models one of the forms of reflexivity children need to be resilient in the face of adversity and to empower them to undertake the biographical project risk society requires of them.

‘A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust’: The World and Self in Thomas Hardy's Poems

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Monika Szuba
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Recurrent Theme ◽  
Body Subject

The essay discusses selected poems from Thomas Hardy's vast body of poetry, focusing on representations of the self and the world. Employing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concepts such as the body-subject, wild being, flesh, and reversibility, the essay offers an analysis of Hardy's poems in the light of phenomenological philosophy. It argues that far from demonstrating ‘cosmic indifference’, Hardy's poetry offers a sympathetic vision of interrelations governing the universe. The attunement with voices of the Earth foregrounded in the poems enables the self's entanglement in the flesh of the world, a chiasmatic intertwining of beings inserted between the leaves of the world. The relation of the self with the world is established through the act of perception, mainly visual and aural, when the body becomes intertwined with the world, thus resulting in a powerful welding. Such moments of vision are brief and elusive, which enhances a sense of transitoriness, and, yet, they are also timeless as the self becomes immersed in the experience. As time is a recurrent theme in Hardy's poetry, this essay discusses it in the context of dwelling, the provisionality of which is demonstrated in the prevalent sense of temporality, marked by seasons and birdsong, which underline the rhythms of the world.

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